Seminar in Public Health Law and Policy in an Interprofessional Setting: Preparing Practitioners for Collaborative Practice at the Macro Level

Abstract

The author created a new course, called “Seminar in Public Health Law and Policy in an Interprofessional Setting” to address the need for interprofessional education (IPE) to equip graduate and professional students for collaborative practice at the systemic and policy (i.e., macro”) levels in the health care and public health fields. Despite important work being done at the clinical practice level, limited existing IPE models examine larger systemic issues. The course is designed specifically to enable students in social work, law, and public health to recognize the reciprocal relationships between policy and interprofessional collaborative practice, including the need for understanding of the impact of team-practice work at the system and policy levels.

Cognitive Processing of Miscommunication in Interactive Listening: An Evaluation of Listener Indecision and Cognitive Effort

“…These findings have important implications for everyday life, but may also benefit the field of communication sciences and disorders specifically because of the potential educational implications for clinical practice and instruction, as well as communication with parents and caregivers in a clinical setting. If we know that miscommunication has the potential to re-engage processing effort in contexts in which automaticity (Bargh & Chartrand, 1999) and heuristics (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974) are typically relied on to process the world, then we may be able to add to literatures that discuss the strategic use of miscommunication to facilitate learning and better decision making and communication practices in healthcare (e.g., McCabe, 2016;McCabe & Healey, 2018) and educational contexts. Acknowledgments A special thank you to Michael K. Tanenhaus, Cole Craycraft, and Ashley Ferguson, CCC-SLP for their invaluable contributions to early versions of this project.…”

Transforming the Future of Public Health Law Education through a Faculty Fellowship Program

“…Six of the finalists selected as fellows had primary appointments in law schools; 14 two had primary appointments in public health schools; 15 one had a primary appointment in a medical school; 16 and one had a primary appointment in a school of social work. 17 All four of the candidates without primary appointments in a law school had strong affiliations with the law school on their campus or with a law school in the state. All of the projects proposed to incorporate experiential learning, and many sought to establish connections between the fellow's school and community partners in public health law (either as part of the new course or through externships).…”